Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations “active United Kingdom user” means—

(a)

in relation to a regulated user-to-user service^f1, any United Kingdom user^f2 who has accessed the user-to-user part of that service;

(b)

in relation to the search engine^f3 of a regulated search service^f4 or the search engine of a combined service^f5, any United Kingdom user who has encountered^f6 search content^f7 in or via search results^f8 of that regulated search service or combined service.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: See sections 3 and 4 of the Online Safety Act 2023 (c. 50) for the meaning of “user-to-user service” and “regulated user-to-user service”.
f2: See section 227 of the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “user” and “United Kingdom user”.
f3: See section 229 of the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “search engine”.
f4: See sections 3 and 4 of the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of a “search service” and a “regulated search service”.
f5: See section 4(7) of the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of a “combined service”.
f6: See section 236(1) of the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “encounter”.
f7: See paragraph 7 of Schedule 11 to the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “search content”; it has the same meaning as in Part 3 of that Act (see section 57(2)). See also section 236 of that Act for the meaning of “content”.
f8: See paragraph 7 of Schedule 11 to the Online Safety Act 2023 for the meaning of “search content”; it has the same meaning as section 57 of that Act, which includes the meaning of “search results” in section 57(3) and the meaning of “via search results” in section 57(5).